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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. ToroDB

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	ToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	In-memory caching system	A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.79 Rank #108   Overall #56   Relational DBMS	Score 0.00 Rank #356   Overall #57   Key-value stores	Score 0.01 Rank #351   Overall #46   Document stores
Website	www.4d.com	cachelot.io	www.torodb.com
Technical documentation	livedoc.4d.com		www.torodb.com/­stampede/­docs
Developer	4D, Inc		8Kdata
Initial release	1984	2015	2016
Current release	v18 R5, January 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Simplified BSD License	Open Source AGPL-V3
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Java
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	FreeBSD Linux OS X	All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	no
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	Memcached protocol
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	none	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	no	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	no	Access rights for users and roles
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Cachelot.io	ToroDB
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